Fifty Years
The golden cycle of life has begun
In half centurys jaunt into the world
To look back on the times when we had fun
We stared at each other and became one
Sharing sadness and joy, anger and glee
The future moved on as our children came
The sixties came in with our youthful fling
To laugh and throw our cautions to the wind
The bicentennial in seventy six
another ten years of our wedded bliss
The nineteen eighties left a tearful glow
Of anger, angst and bitter scenes
My mid life thoughts had me oft in dismay
With dreams of a maiden much younger than I
On an isle somewhere that no one could find
Your menopause lasted as long as my thoughts
And the nineties left us with a common theme
Testing our love as the years moved on by
The Millennium came without a smile
with ocassional moments of chagrin and loss
And I am still here a more vintaged man
who still loves you now and I always will
And life has shown as we continue to fill
The time we have left living on the edge
Losers Only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Jerry T. Curtis
April 4, 2016
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